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...Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) is planning an "emergency press conference" for the day after the first prosecution, no matter when or where the suit taken place. The conference, BAARD member Nora H. Leyland said, will take place at the Arlington St. Church, and will feature Dr. Benjamin Spock. Spock was one of four people arrested at that site in the late 1960s for draft resistance activities...
...Boston Area Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) sponsored the rally. BAARD, formed last year when former President Jimmy Carter first advocated draft registration in his State of the Union address, organized protests against registration renewal last January and July, including one at Harvard Square in which police arrested 18 persons for "idle and disorderly conduct...
Magistrate Robert L. DeGiacomo found Gary Sachs, the BAARD member, guilty of obstructing access to an elevator and of refusing to comply with the orders of federal officers to leave the McCormack federal building in Boston during a BAARD sit-in on January 6, the first day of draft registration for men born in 1962. Sentencing has been scheduled for March...
Carla F. Wallace, a BAARD member who was with Sachs in the elevator, said yesterday that at first both she and Sachs had refused to leave the elevator. "They dragged me out of the building, but they arrested Gary," Wallace said, adding, "It seemed they wanted to 'get' Gary because of his involvement in previous rallies...
Robert L. Hernandez, Sachs' attorney, said yesterday he would appeal today's decision as well as a decision by DeGiacomo last month in which 14 BAARD members received maximum sentences of 30 days in prison and $50 fines for their participation in the January...